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The WordPerfect story as told by an early executive, Pete Peterson: http://www.wordplace.com/ap/almostperfect.pdf
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vi/vim users everywhere gonna love this one: "He also eliminated the different typing modes which plagued the early word processors. With other products, if you were typing new text at the end of a document, you had to be in a Create mode. If you typed in the middle, you had to be in an Edit mode. In an Edit mode, your typing would erase existing text, so to insert text, you had to change to an Insert mode. Alan allo…
I use neovim, but I actually really prefer the Wordstar-like editing model (same/similar to Word Perfect's?). You'd think that would push me towards emacs, but I just get the sense that neovim has a more active community.
But it's a whole thing. Ends up being a whole all-encompassing world view. It's my preferred editor, and I love and have memorized the default key bindings and window management years ago... but I also ... have a love hate thing with it. Something always needs tweaking and it takes so long to start.
So long, and thanks for Reveal Codes .
So long, and thanks for Reveal Codes .
For those who weren't there at the time: Imagine that all web editors emitted a proprietary document format that wasn't documented anywhere except in the editor that wrote a file and the viewer that interpreted it. You lived with this because that's just the way it was done. It was common to get a web page into such a state that 2/3 of the page was red, one column was RTL for some reason, and everything was in italic…
Everything in WordPerfect was just markup, and it was editable markup at that.
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Why don't sharks bite lawyers? Professional courtesy. (I have a million of these from my lawyer friends.)
Please, keep `em coming!
One's a scum sucking bottom dweller and the other's a fish.
(Stopping with this one. It's fun trading these with attorney buddies but I don't want someone to take them out of context as an opportunity to start lawyer bashing.)
Your changes have been saved, Bruce. RIP
The WordPerfect story as told by an early executive, Pete Peterson: http://www.wordplace.com/ap/almostperfect.pdf
The things that were possible in 1980, when you could work mornings in a grocery store making FOUR dollars an hour, covering your house payment (with a large garden!) because your drapery business is failing.
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This one and Sid Meier's "Memoir!" are two of my favourite software dev stories. Both are quick easy reads / and from the same era... code-nostalgia and hard- business mixed together.
"The Autodesk File Bits of History, Words of Experience": https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/e5/